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Proprietor of REBECCA VINTAGE - A Gathering Place an on-line Shoppe where I love to sell Chic Pillows, Farmhouse Complements and anything and everything vintage- lace-layered and French Country White! Author of A GATHERING OF THOUGHTS BLOG
where I love to share stories of my life's journey and the fabulous old
finds I've discovered along the way.
I love decorative and altered arts of all kinds, especially those that
implement vintage textiles. It is easy for me to get lost in my work,
especially when using aging laces made long ago with loving hands.
Though tattered and worn, beautiful ribbons of rayon and silk continue
to take my breath away. I've made it my mission to uncover such
treasures, rescue them from a hidden box or darkened closet and then
joyfully work to give them new life once again. I'm a wife, mother of two grown children, Nana to one beautiful little girl who is almost 11.

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My daughter's bedroom was featured in the June Bedrooms & Baths 2008 issue. Page 57.

Even though my home has been completely updated since the photo shoot, you can see what it looked like in October 2006 in this fabulous issue!

In the September 2006 issue some of my early work can be found on pages 74 - 77!

In June 2006 some of my Pillows were showcased! They can be found on pages 47 and 52!

Some of my early work can be found in the September 2005 issue of RH! You can see samples on pages 70 and 73.

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

~CLEANING and SCRUBBING...Are You Kiddin' Me?~

(I've changed up a sweet old poem for fun...)

CLEANING AND SCRUBBING

CAN WAIT 'TIL TOMORROW

MY SEWING AND PAINTING

I'VE LEARNED TO MY SORROW

WILL SIT THERE UNFINISHED

TILL MY BRUSH IS IN SWING

OR MY NEEDLE IS STITCHING

SOME SWEET LITTLE THING

SO QUIET DOWN COBWEBS

DUST BE-YE-DELAYED

I'M OFF MAKING PRETTIES

SO I'VE HIRED A MAID

:)

~Rebecca Elliott Nelson/2012~

OK...so I'm NOT a poet!

(Couldn't resist a wee bit of MUSE!)

I surely AM a deal-finder tho! Check this out...

On Monday I went to one of our local thrift stores and found this amazing vintage lamp. Isn't it just the neatest little thing? I'm going to paint her up with a fresh white paint and then I have the perfect place for her. Not telling you YET where that special place is...all in good time.

(More about this soon!)

Now...want to know what made this beauty the deal of the day

week

MONTH?

Yep...you got it! Total price $4.98 after being marked down twice. Can't believe nobody wanted it for $14.96...and then $8.98. Well I did...but $4.98 is very much bettahhhhh....

22 comments:

Lovely lamp all right. Good find. That poem is a crafting version of one I know about babies and mothehood. It's lovely. Actually a friend on facebook just the other day posted all 4 stanzas of it. Thanks for sharing.

Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth empty the dustpan, poison the moth, hang out the washing and butter the bread, sew on a button and make up a bed. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I’ve grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue (lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo). Dishes are waiting and bills are past due (pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo). The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew and out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo but I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo. Look! Aren’t her eyes the most wonderful hue? (lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo).

Rebecca I have a lamp just like that with the exception of the globe. I am not using it right now. Its hiding out in my stash in our storage room. I will bring it back out sometime, I change things out a lot.

Oh my gosh Rebecca!!! Would you believe we have TWO of those lamps in our guest bedroom??? Jack had them when I met him, over 35 years ago and I STILL love them!!! Your poem is adorable, and so are you... I LOVE that photo of you!!! You look so beautiful, like right out of a fairytale... I want your hair... too pretty!!!... xoxo Julie Marie PS I will email a pic of my lamps!!!

OMG is what you are painting what I think it is? It is fantabulously gorgeous!!!!! Love that picture of you, so professional, it needs to be in a magazine. And that lamp is wonderful, I know how beautiful it will be. Love you Miss R.HugsG

Not sure my "cobwebs"could wait that long, but what a beautiful sight you are, Rebecca!

I am always inviting my teen daughter to come view your blog with me!

There is always so much beauty to see. I showed her your blue guest bedroom a couple of days ago, and told her that it use to be your son's. She laughed and said that he must be in shock over it now and hope's he has somewhere else to stay!

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